How to Use brooding in a Sentence

brooding

adjective

• No more brooding alone at house parties.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 19 Feb. 2026
• Williams plays Dylan, a brooding bad boy.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
• The grind, for seven years, was the dark and brooding Mad Men.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 14 Oct. 2016
• Yet the movie’s plot machinations and brooding tone are at times a little too clever.
  — Pat Padua, kansascity, 8 Mar. 2018
• But there’s nothing stopping you from dreaming up your own take on the brooding hero.
  — Lauren Young, Smithsonian, 10 Feb. 2017
• Rumor is, Liev Schreiber is playing a brooding chunk of meat.
  — Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2017
• He had really been put through the wringer, was very brooding, and needed to go find himself.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 14 Oct. 2024
• That sounds brooding, but there’s something buoyant and catchy about Cannon’s work.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Traces of the brooding mass only became evident through a large-scale new seismic study.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2018
• Butler had no choice but to imagine what a brooding, faithful gang leader’s lieutenant might be like.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
• In one frame, a slab of darkly brooding sky seems to loom down on a skeletal railing that runs across the shot, cleaving it in half.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• This isn't the one-note brooding, mysterious kind of troubled hero we're used to seeing.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 27 Jan. 2026
• There was a feeling, throughout the World Cup, of something brooding.
  — SI.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• Or at least a bit more variety in tone from the mostly brooding, minor-key songs that populate its first act.
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• Each of these paintings presents a burst of brightness against a brooding dark background, and each is mysterious.
  — Cullen Murphy, Air Mail, 23 Aug. 2025
• The land is ancient, primal, brooding; the hotel is modern and therefore at odds with the landscape—and at one with it.
  — Geoff Dyer, GQ, 5 Feb. 2018
• Flying onto the Masked Singer stage comes a performer known for his brooding persona.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
• The height comes from a stance atop 20-inch wheels, and the vehicle’s sloping hood descends low, like a brooding brow.
  — John Scott Lewinski, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2026
• The view from the main terrace looks out toward the volcano at Rabaul, which cuts a brooding profile across the horseshoe bay.
  — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2018
• Schreiber tends toward brooding, intense performances; Valmont is, or at least should be, a dandy.
  — Jesse Oxfeld, Town & Country, 31 Oct. 2016
• The shorter brooding time probably reduces the embryo’s risk to predators skulking around to eat the eggs, such as shrimp.
  — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
• Is there a brooding, shifty fellow dragon rider in this that will pave way for a clear enemies-to-lovers situation?
  — Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 24 July 2024
• A lot of it came down to Adam, a brooding alcoholic, who was often unpredictable in his behavior.
  — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Apr. 2026
• The film’s entire cast of characters serves brooding, creepy looks, but Wednesday Addams is our pick for the big night.
  — Emily Gaynor, Teen Vogue, 23 Oct. 2017
• Set against a brooding, mountainous landscape, the movie evokes the in-between world of ancient myth referenced in the title.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 Feb. 2024
• Pattinson has never looked more brooding, and this is a guy who shot to fame playing a very angsty vampire in the Twilight franchise.
  — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 13 Feb. 2020
• Ridged cactus corals are brooding coral, meaning to reproduce, only their sperm -- not the eggs -- are released into the water.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 22 Apr. 2020
• The sound is expansive, more reliant on keyboards, sax, and gospel-like female backing singers than on the electric guitars and brooding melodies of his past.
  — Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• The foil to Sonic’s childlike, happy-go-lucky character, Shadow is dark, brooding and up to no good.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
• Abbott is a terrific stage actor with a brooding, unpredictable presence.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019